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asqarkabab on 13 October 2015

Cool are the system requirements known ?



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bigtakilla on 13 October 2015

In about 10 plus years, holding out on getting Bayo 2 is really gonna pay off.



DivinePaladin on 13 October 2015
walsufnir said:
Goodnightmoon said:

Well, is gonna take years and a Nasa computer until it runs fine, and even there the wiiu gamepad is not posible to use unless you put some kind of akward split screen and using the mouse instead of your hand to touch it.


Sure, because the Xbone is a NASA computer which is able to emulate the 360.

Doesn't the XBO have the exact 360 hardware included? I remember reading in the same explanation as to how the 360 emulation works that there's literally a 360 inside every XBO, just as the early PS3 models also literally contained PS2s. Not exactly the best of comparisons. 

 

From my understanding (I don't even remotely dabble in high end emulation, so little so that I don't even follow it), it still takes a relatively high end PC to run Dolphin games reasonably well, and Dolphin is incredibly well built and has been optimized about as much as it'll ever be. I think we're still a long while off of a 50% effective PS360 emulator, let alone something with as..."unique" specs as the Wii U has. After all, we only really got the Wii emu quickly because it's essentially a Gamecube with waggle. 



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Boberkun on 13 October 2015
97alexk said:

emulators have always been for cheap people. pfft buy a real console.

That's not all about piracy. Modding, translations for japanise-only games (thanks for region-lock, Nintendo!), models ripping, actual fullHD resolution and framerate (in theory).



MegaDrive08 on 13 October 2015

I doubt this will ever come to anything



 

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walsufnir on 13 October 2015
Goodnightmoon said:
walsufnir said:


Sure, because the Xbone is a NASA computer which is able to emulate the 360.

Oh but that´s some kind of magic that Microsoft did there with their own technology, usually you need to have a computer that is ridiculously more powerfull than the real console in order to have a decent emulation of its games, and this happens always, I´m sure this performs like shit in a lot of high end PC, and thats with all the bugs, incompatibilities, lack of sound, etc etc because is gonna take years until it performs decently regardless the specs.


Xenia also has some good performance already. But we will see how it turns out.



JRPGfan on 13 October 2015

That was alot sooner than I thought it would be.
Oh well before its ready to play games half decently for the avg joe, people will be on to the NX and laughing at people with emulators playing last gen games.



Frogger on 13 October 2015
JRPGfan said:
That was alot sooner than I thought it would be.
Oh well before its ready to play games half decently for the avg joe, people will be on to the NX and laughing at people with emulators playing last gen games.


No one laughed at people playing GCN/PS2 emulators last gen.



Soundwave on 13 October 2015
JRPGfan said:
That was alot sooner than I thought it would be.
Oh well before its ready to play games half decently for the avg joe, people will be on to the NX and laughing at people with emulators playing last gen games.


Pretty sure PC gamers will most of those console titles too likely at better graphics, so if anything they're laughing at console owners. 



Hynad on 13 October 2015
DivinePaladin said:
walsufnir said:


Sure, because the Xbone is a NASA computer which is able to emulate the 360.

Doesn't the XBO have the exact 360 hardware included? I remember reading in the same explanation as to how the 360 emulation works that there's literally a 360 inside every XBO, just as the early PS3 models also literally contained PS2s. Not exactly the best of comparisons. 

 

From my understanding (I don't even remotely dabble in high end emulation, so little so that I don't even follow it), it still takes a relatively high end PC to run Dolphin games reasonably well, and Dolphin is incredibly well built and has been optimized about as much as it'll ever be. I think we're still a long while off of a 50% effective PS360 emulator, let alone something with as..."unique" specs as the Wii U has. After all, we only really got the Wii emu quickly because it's essentially a Gamecube with waggle. 


No. It doesn't. The 360 was Power PC based, and the XBO is x86. Basically, Microsoft and its partners retool the games to make them run on the XBO. That's why not all games work currently. Besides, you can't run the games directly from their disc. You have to download them into your HDD first. The disc only serves as a proof you have the game, and unlocks the download file.